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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on September 15, 2022

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940

Posted on September 14, 2022

“Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on September 12, 2022

“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022

“What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”—Adlai Stevenson, American politician & diplomat, 1900-1965

Posted on September 9, 2022September 8, 2022

“Put a mouth to a mouth, but don’t put a pen to paper.”—Irish proverb

Posted on September 4, 2022September 4, 2022

“If music doesn’t come from windows, you know that something’s definitely wrong.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band (Eugene Hütz)

Posted on September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

“A good critic is one who describes his adventures among masterpieces.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on August 30, 2022

“A man long absent is forgotten.”—Irish proverb

Posted on August 30, 2022August 29, 2022

“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.”—John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1917-1963

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